About me:

Anna is Professor of Human Genetics and Director of Research and Impact for the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences. She is part of the 'Reproductive Genomics' research group (https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/reprogenomics/). Her main research expertise is in the field of reproductive ageing and she has published on single gene mutations which cause premature ovarian insufficiency and also genome-wide studies to detect novel loci involved in menopause timing and other reproductive traits.

Qualifications:

BSc, PhD

Career:

Anna has a degree in biology from Southampton University, where she also completed her PhD, investigating the molecular biology of coeliac disease and T cell lymphoma of the gut. She spent 5 years as a postdoc in Professor Pat Jacobs' lab in Salisbury investigating the population genetics and molecular basis of fragile X syndrome. In 1998 Anna received a Career Development Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to work on the association between the fragile X mutation and premature ovarian failure. Anna moved to Exeter in 2005 following a short career break to have her daughter. Following the Wellcome fellowship, Anna became a lecturer at Exeter in 2008 and was promoted to Professor in 2022. She is also currently the Director of Research and Impact for the Clinical and Biomedical Sciences Department.